MPEG LA announced today that Harvard International plc and the Harvard Group of companies (“Harvard”), previously called Alba plc, have become Licensees to several MPEG LA programs, including the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License.
“Recognizing that the MPEG-2 License which Harvard has entered into does not license Harvard branded products that it obtains from [...]

Wondershare released DemoCreator 2.8, a Windows screen recorder that creates interactive videos for software presentations, system demonstrations, and computer training.
DemoCreator 2.8 introduces more considerate objects to simplify editing operation for creating vivid screencast. It provides a visual modern GUI, drag-drop control and few mouse clicks for everyone to generate engaging screen recording videos [...]

Collaboration between Leading Patent Licensing Companies to Offer Product-Based License for One-Seg Handsets

World leading patent pool licensing administrator MPEG LA, LLC, and Japanese patent pool administrator ULDAGE Inc. today announced a cooperation under which ULDAGE will offer MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Systems License along with ULDAGE’s ARIB license to companies based in Japan that sell mobile [...]

MPEG LA, LLC, world leader in alternative one-stop patent licenses, today announced that several patent holders in MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License have filed separate patent enforcement actions in District Court Dusseldorf, Germany against Medion AG (“Medion”) for infringing patents essential to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard used worldwide in digital television broadcasting [...]

New MPEG2 encoding module allows content from digital cameras, satellite set-top boxes or DVD players to be streamed as a channel over IP networks
Edinburgh, 11 June, 2009: Exterity, a specialist in network IPTV, has upgraded its existing AV Encoder and today launched the new Exterity IPTV Encoder. The new MPEG-2 encoding module is blade-based, [...]

Single-Chip Solution Offers High Definition Video Playback and Blazing Fast 3D Graphics for Arcade, Casino and Digital Signage Embedded Markets
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced the ATI Radeon™ E4690 graphics processor unit (GPU) designed to enable a whole level of new reality for embedded graphics applications with more than triple1 the 3D graphics performance of prior [...]

-Industry-leading low power to drive video in mobile products-
Bangalore, May 13, 2009 – Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) today announced 2 new transcoder ICs that can convert between Full HD (1920 dots x 1080 lines) MPEG-2 (*1) video data and H.264 (*2) video data, as well as transcoding between audio formats while featuring a [...]

Aero Quartet today released SimpleMovieX 3.9, the lightweight Mac OS X movie editor. With a feature set roughly similar to QuickTime Pro, SimpleMovieX extends editing capabilities to other popular video formats AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. A native H264 editing tool, SimpleMovieX is the perfect companion for iTunes. This new version brings a metadata editor, [...]

NXP’s new DVB-C Solution, STB150, Speeds Manufacturer Time to Market as Operators Convert Analog TV Subscribers to Digital Services
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today unveiled the new STB150 system solution, delivering a complete production-ready platform for the fast growing digital cable TV services market. The NXP STB150 integrates the powerful [...]

IPTV World Forum 2009
Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that its Convergence Series video headend has been selected for Türk Telekom’s IPTV project in Turkey. Türk Telekom, one of the world’s largest Tier 1 telecommunications operators serving more than 30 million customers, will [...]